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Built using Martin's old case, picked up on 2020-09-17, built on 2020-09-18.

Dedicating it for work use, with much better performance than unicorn, the Intel 7200U-based laptop that it replaces.

Added parts that I bought:

Installed with Pop_OS! 20.04, an Ubuntu-based distro from System76.

Upgraded to Pop_OS! 22.04 LTS on 2022-05-04.

Potential case upgrade

I'd like to cycle this setup to a Mini-ITX case, which I'd take from wa-chan. That'd be a few changes which need buying:

The price varies a fair bit depending on how you buy:

A better PSU is worth $50-55, and convenience of single supplier is worth $10-15. The ssupd case is gonna be $240-250, which is the single biggest cost here.

Potential GPU upgrade

I suspect that the GTX960 is having trouble reliably pushing 4k@60, or the cable is dodgy. It drops out at random, usually 4-5 times in a row before settling down again, a few times a day.

Technically this can only be done at 4:2:0 subsampling on HDMI 1.4, which I think is the cabling I have. It's unclear if the card itself support HDMI 2.0, but the LG work monitor does: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/32ud99-w (HDMI 2.0, DP 1.2)

A GTX1030 is a viable upgrade, it's cheap and does HDMI 2.0b output. I'll probably have to get yet another HDMI cable, but meh.

users

services

issues

There is a particular annoying problem with the GPU drivers at the moment, it seems that after an unlock/unsuspect, Chrome's rendering freaks out and makes glitches everywhere. Knew straightaway that this was gonna be an acceleration issue, but not being able to use GPU acceleration really sucks.

This is what I'm afflicted with as best I can tell: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1113040

Maybe just switching off acceleration is the way to go for now.

MeidokonWiki: servers/suomi (last edited 2022-05-04 07:46:28 by furinkan)